Academic Interests

Jarle Trondal's academic interests include public administration, the EU as a political system, administrative integration and transformation, the EU/EEA and Norway, the European Commission, EU committee governance.

Background

Trondal has a doctoral degree from University of Oslo, ARENA (2001). His thesis dealt with the administrative integration of EU institutions and domestic public administration through EU committees.

He is currently Professor in public administration at University of Agder and at ARENA. He is also Honorary Professor at the University of Copenhagen

Awards

2009: Awarded best article of the year, Norwegian Journal of Political Science

2004: The Vincent Wright Award for the best article published in West European Politics

Positions held

2010-present: Programme Director of the PhD Programme in Public Administration, University of Agder

2010-present: Honorary Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen

2006-present: Professor, University of Agder, Department of Political Science and Management

2002-2006: Associate Professor, Agder University College, Department of Political Science and Management

2001-2002: Senior Researcher, NIFU-STEP

1996-2001: Research Fellow at ARENA, University of Oslo

Projects

Jarle Trondal is currently participating in Norwegian Research Council-funded projects NORCONE - The Norwegian Constitution in a Changing European Context, and EuroTrans - The Transformation and Sustainability of the European Political Order.

At the University of Agder, Jarle Trondal has previously coordinated the Norwegian Research Council funded project DISC – Dynamics of International Executive Institutions and he is currently coordinating the project COMPOL – The Rise of Common Political Order – financed by the basic research grant from Ugland Industries.

Egeberg, Morten & Trondal, Jarle (2016). Why strong coordination at one level of government is incompatible with strong coordination across levels (and how to live with it): The case of the European Union. Public Administration.
ISSN 0033-3298.
94(3), s 579- 592 . doi:
10.1111/padm.12236

Egeberg, Morten; Trondal, Jarle & Vestlund, Nina Merethe (2014). The Quest for Order: Unravelling the relationship between the European Commission and European Union agencies. Journal of European Public Policy.
ISSN 1350-1763.
. doi:
10.1080/13501763.2014.976587

Murdoch, Zuzana; Trondal, Jarle & Gänzle, Stefan (2014). Building foreign affairs capacity in the EU: The recruitment of member state officials to the European External Action Service (EEAS). Public Administration.
ISSN 0033-3298.
92(1), s 71- 86 . doi:
10.1111/padm.12037

Trondal, Jarle (2014). The Rise of a European Public Administration: European Capacity Building by Stealth, In Philipp Genschel & Markus Jachtenfuchs (ed.),
Beyond the Regulatory Polity?.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 978-0-19-966282-1.
9.
s 166
- 186

Trondal, Jarle; Murdoch, Zuzana & Gänzle, Stefan (2013). The Origins of Common Action Capacities. Observations on the recruitment of Member States’ diplomats and officials to the European External Action Service (EEAS).